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Welcome to the Adoption and Foster Care Research Guide

This research guide helps to locate information on adoption and foster care through the Harris and CWRU libraries. Use the menu to explore and remember that your Harris librarians are available for additional help!

Getting Started

A good way to start your research is by locating resources that provide an overview of your topic, and give background information and identify potential keywords in your subject area. Encyclopedias, handbooks and subject specific dictionaries offer good places to start.

Adoption-Specific Therapy by Jill Waterman; Audra Langley; Jeanne Miranda; Debbie B. Riley
Call Number: ebook

ISBN: 9781433829406

Publication Date: 2018-07-01

Children who are adopted at an older age through foster care and those adopted from overseas orphanages are at high risk for behavioral and emotional distress. This important manual presents a structured, evidence-based protocol for providing mental health treatment to families adopting vulnerable children.
Handbook of Adoption by David Brodzinsky (Preface by); Rafael Art Javier; Amanda L. Baden; Frank A. Biafora; Alina Camacho-Gingerich
Call Number: HV875.H36 2007. Also available as an ebook.

ISBN: 9781412927505

Publication Date: 2006-12-28

Serves as a sourcebook to train mental health and behavioral health professionals, and addresses topics in adoption reflecting the many dimensions of theory, research, development, race, adjustment, and clinical practice which affect adoption triad members.
The Praeger Handbook of Adoption by Kathy Shepherd Stolley (Editor); Vern L. Bullough (Editor)
Call Number: HV875.P694 2006

ISBN: 9780313333354

Publication Date: 2006-10-30

Provides both historical and current information on all aspects of adoption, from many countries and religions, and highlights perspectives of the birth parents, adopting parents and the adopted child; open and closed adoption; national and international adoption; and grandparent and single-parent adoption.

The authors and several of the contributors are Mandel School faculty members, Ph.D. students, and alumni.
Therapeutic interventions for families and children in the child welfare system by Sheri Pickover, Heather Brown
Call Number: ebook

ISBN: 9780826122193

Publication Date: 2016

Covers treatment issues unique to children and families who have a relationship with the foster care system. With a focus on understanding how to navigate the complexities of the child welfare system, the book identifies and addresses mental health and behavioral issues specific to this population and provides proven, effective treatment interventions.